I have managed to implement the smoothState.js plugin on my website and it works nicely, but my other very simple jQuery plugin will not work, wich starts with:
$(document).ready()
I need to refresh the page in order for it to work again.
I've read the smoothState documentation and it says I should wrap your plugin initializations in a function that we call on both $.fn.ready() and onAfter — but I'm farely new to programming, so I'm asking for your help.
How can I make my jQuery plugins work with smoothState?
You need to wrap scripts that are initiated with $(document).ready()
in a function, and then call that function when you need it.
For example, let’s say this is your current script:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.btn--homepage').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var goTo = $(this).attr('href');
$('#page').addClass('is-exiting');
$(this).addClass('exit-btn');
setTimeout(function() {
window.location = goTo;
}, 260);
});
});
It’ll work fine when the page loads as it’s wrapped in $(document).ready(function())
, but as the page won’t be reloading when using Smoothstate
, we need a way to call the snippet both when the page originally loads and when smoothstate loads content. To do this we’ll turn the above snippet in to a function like this:
(function($) {
$.fn.onPageLoad = function() {
$('.btn--homepage').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var goTo = $(this).attr('href');
$('#page').addClass('is-exiting');
$(this).addClass('exit-btn');
setTimeout(function() {
window.location = goTo;
}, 260);
});
};
}(jQuery));
As you can see, we’ve swapped $(document).ready(function())
with the function wrapper, everything else stays the same.
So now we’ve got a function all we need to do is call it when the page loads and in Smoothstate.
To call it when a page loads all we need to do is this:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('body').onPageLoad();
});
And to trigger it in Smoothstate we need to call it in the InAfter callback like this:
onAfter: function($container) {
$container.onPageLoad();
}
And here's an example Smoothstate script showing where to put the onAfter
callback:
$(function() {
var $page = $('#main');
var options = {
prefetch : true,
pageCacheSize: 4,
forms: 'form',
scroll: false,
onStart: {
duration: 1200,
render: function($container) {
$container.addClass('is-exiting');
smoothState.restartCSSAnimations();
}
},
onReady: {
duration: 0,
render: function($container, $newContent) {
$container.removeClass('is-exiting');
$container.html($newContent);
$('html, body').scrollTop(0);
}
},
onAfter: function($container) {
$container.onPageLoad();
}
};
var smoothState = $('#main').smoothState(options).data('smoothState');
});
Happy to provide further assistance if needed.